Commentary
Of Cotton and “Hands”: Engaging River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom Part I
Editorial Board
The plantation becomes an organizational design of “labor and nature,” where the nightmare in Jefferson’s dream (the uprising of the enslaved) becomes the nightmare (the violence of enslavement) in the dreams of freedom for Black people.
‘A soil manured with black blood from two hundred years of oppression and exploitation until it sprang with an incredible paradox of peaceful greenery and crimson…
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